Duty of Candour
Recommendations related to duty of candour
Tag overview
recommendation across 8 inquiries
Across 8 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
Patient focus and complaints
The Inquiry recommends that the Trust and Department work together to ensure there is: • A specific programme of work to strengthen patient involvement, improve communication, and ensure patients and …
Statutory duty of candour
A statutory duty of candour should now be enacted in Northern Ireland so that: (i) Every healthcare organisation and everyone working for them must be open and honest in all …
Duty of Candour - Northern Ireland
Duty of candour: A statutory duty of candour in healthcare should be introduced in Northern Ireland.
Duty of Candour - Scotland and Wales Review
Duty of candour: The operation of the duties of candour in healthcare in Scotland and in Wales should be reviewed, as it is being in England, to assess how effective …
Duty of Candour - England Review
Duty of candour: The review of the duty of candour currently under way in England should be completed as soon as practicable.
Individual Duty of Candour for Leaders
Statutory duty of candour: The statutory duties of candour in England, Scotland, Wales (and Northern Ireland, when introduced) should be extended to cover those individuals in leadership positions in the …
Civil Service Statutory Duty of Candour
The Government should reconsider whether, in the light of the facts revealed by this Inquiry, it is sufficient to continue to rely on the current non-statutory duties in the Civil …
Statutory duty of candour for law enforcement
The Panel recommends the creation of a statutory duty of candour, to be owed by all law enforcement agencies to those whom they serve, subject to protection of national security …
Board apologies
We recommend that when things go wrong, boards should apologise at the earliest stage of investigation and not hold back from doing so for fear of the consequences in relation …
Statutory Duty of Candour
A statutory duty of candour should now be enacted in Northern Ireland so that: (i) Every healthcare organisation and everyone working for them must be open and honest in all …
Criminal Liability for Candour Breach
Criminal liability should attach to breach of this duty and criminal liability should attach to obstruction of another in the performance of this duty.
Guidance on Statutory Duty of Candour
Unequivocal guidance should be issued by the Department to all Trusts and their legal advisors detailing what is expected of Trusts in order to meet the statutory duty.
Trust Awareness of Duty of Candour
Trusts should ensure that all healthcare professionals are made fully aware of the importance, meaning and implications of the duty of candour and its critical role in the provision of …
Employment Contracts and Duty of Candour
Trusts should review their contracts of employment, policies and guidance to ensure that, where relevant, they include and are consistent with the duty of candour.
Support for Candour Compliance
Support and protection should be given to those who properly fulfil their duty of candour.
Monitoring Candour Compliance
Trusts should monitor compliance and take disciplinary action against breach.
Candour in Trust Communications
All Trust publications, media statements and press releases should comply with the requirement for candour and be monitored for accuracy by a nominated non-executive Director.
Raise awareness of incident reporting and duty of candour
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should identify and implement a programme to raise awareness of incident reporting, including requirements, benefits and processes. The Trust should also …
Involve patients and relatives in incident investigation
We commend the introduction of the duty of candour for all NHS professionals. This should be extended to include the involvement of patients and relatives in the investigation of serious …
Principles of openness transparency and candour
Every healthcare organisation and everyone working for them must be honest, open and truthful in all their dealings with patients and the public, and organisational and personal interests must never …
Candour about harm
Where death or serious harm has been or may have been caused to a patient by an act or omission of the organisation or its staff, the patient (or any …
Candour about harm
Full and truthful answers must be given to any question reasonably asked about his or her past or intended treatment by a patient (or, if deceased, to any lawfully entitled …
Openness with regulators
Any statement made to a regulator or a commissioner in the course of its statutory duties must be completely truthful and not misleading by omission.
Openness in public statements
Any public statement made by a healthcare organisation about its performance must be truthful and not misleading by omission.
Implementation of the duty Ensuring consistency of obligations under the duty of openness transparency and candour
The NHS Constitution should be revised to reflect the changes recommended with regard to a duty of openness, transparency and candour, and all organisations should review their contracts of employment, …
Candour about incidents
Guidance and policies should be reviewed to ensure that they will lead to compliance with Being Open, the guidance published by the National Patient Safety Agency.
Enforcement of the duty Statutory duties of candour in relation to harm to patients
A statutory obligation should be imposed to observe a duty of candour: On healthcare providers who believe or suspect that treatment or care provided by it to a patient has …
Statutory duty of openness and transparency
There should be a statutory duty on all directors of healthcare organisations to be truthful in any information given to a healthcare regulator or commissioner, either personally or on behalf …
Criminal liability
It should be made a criminal offence for any registered medical practitioner, or nurse, or allied health professional or director of an authorised or registered healthcare organisation: Knowingly to obstruct …
Enforcement by the Care Quality Commission
Observance of the duty should be policed by the Care Quality Commission, which should have powers in the last resort to prosecute in cases of serial non-compliance or serious and …
Information to coroners
There is an urgent need for unequivocal guidance to be given to trusts and their legal advisers and those handling disclosure of information to coroners, patients and families, as to …
Sanctions and interventions for non-compliance
Zero tolerance: A service incapable of meeting fundamental standards should not be permitted to continue. Breach should result in regulatory consequences attributable to an organisation in the case of a …
Clarity of values and principles
In reaching out to patients, consideration should be given to including expectations in the NHS Constitution that: Staff put patients before themselves; They will do everything in their power to …
Duty of utmost good faith
A duty of utmost good faith should be imposed on applicants for foundation trust status to disclose to the regulator any significant information material to the application and to ensure …